Rainy days can be good for strolling and relaxing in the city
"Paris Street; Rainy Day" is housed at the Art Institute in Chicago, which has this to say:
"The painting’s highly crafted surface, rigorous perspective, and grand scale pleased Parisian audiences accustomed to the academic aesthetic of the official Salon.
On the other hand, its asymmetrical composition, unusually cropped forms, rain-washed mood, and candidly contemporary subject stimulated a more radical sensibility."
"The painting’s highly crafted surface, rigorous perspective, and grand scale pleased Parisian audiences accustomed to the academic aesthetic of the official Salon.
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Gustave Caillebotte - Paris Street; Rainy Day |
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